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Re:Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:40AM (#44930249)
Do you mean nick sim or HN?
Re:That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam on Sunday June 15, 2025 @10:38AM (#44282513)
“Spam” as a neologism doesn’t have a widely agreed upon shared definition. The most apt would seem to be “email I don’t want”. But that’s not too helpful when third party gatekeepers are trying to mass assign status to an email. The same email could be unwanted by one person and very gratefully received by the next.
Re:Booleans Are a Trap on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:11AM (#42100004)
All mental models fail to represent the real world completely. That’s kind of a fundamental feature of them.
Re:U.S. Chip Revival Plan Chooses Sites on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:43PM (#42055436)
Trump didn’t seem to disagree with the premise just the funding. His argument is that the US shouldn’t be funding it. His strategy is to put tariffs on chip imports and foreign chip manufacturers would have to build US based plants on their own dime.
Re:3K free SVG icons for popular brands on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:08AM (#41599567)
Don’t tell every SaaS company ever. (Who I doubt all have robust legal processes for including logos on their homepages)
Consent isn’t required for B2B data processing and cold contact as far as I know, like it is for consumer data. There are six lawful basis including consent. The most relevant one in this case is probably legitimate interest. A company can cold contact someone at an organisation if they believe there is a genuine possibility they would buy the product or service they offer. IANAL however.

PS What’s CYA?

Re:Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution? on Monday February 20, 2023 @12:52PM (#34870644)
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Re:The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:36AM (#28829528)
Also take note the the UK government is very interested in setting up several new Freeports.
Re:Developers, your manager is likely clueless on Thursday September 30, 2021 @09:37AM (#28706135)
I suspect management job descriptions are based on the output of the team to be managed rather than the requirements of being a good manager.
Re:Safari tries to fill username on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:04AM (#27313547)
Safari also completely ignores autocomplete="off" when it thinks something is a username or password field. Even when, as a dev, I know it definitely isn't.
Re:Safari tries to fill username on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:56AM (#27313503)
Yes. I thought changing the field to type="search" may avoid it but alas no.
Re:Safari tries to fill username on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:55AM (#27313494)
Exactly, and isn't it likely to be used equally as a post login phrase? Which is how I discovered this "bug" in the first place!
Re:Safari tries to fill username on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:49AM (#27313435)
In my opinion Safari is way too aggressive with filling usernames and passwords. Anything in any way similarly named like these it forces an autofill. And of course it overrides autocomplete="off". We definitely need an attribute that implies, "I actually know what I'm doing Safari! Please really don't autofill this."
Re:Bitcoin miners are buying power plants on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:19AM (#26834202)
These people buying power stations aren't rich?

One of the issues with crypto currency is that we're replacing one elite with another.

As John Oliver says Cryptocurrency is everything you don't understand about finance combined with everything you don't understand about computers. That new, even eliter, elite is probably no more moral or ethical than the old.

It's not like cryptocurrency is more accessible. Maybe it will become so but I still have to fork out a lot of money to buy Bitcoin. It's just the fees get paid to different people.

Not entirely sure how it's better. It is different though, I'll give you that.

These Assist systems need to be the car assisting the driver. Not the driver assisting the car.
Re:Margaret Mitchell fired from Google on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:36AM (#26205412)
Yeah I have a friend who essentially got fired for the same thing. His crime? Putting some icons he designed for the company on his personal portfolio website. They never used the icons FYI.
> Also, they already have the advantage of real estate. They know that they can add a charging network cheaply in their gas stations than a new player in town building one.

Then why buy up charging networks? Why not just develop their own? Genuine question.

Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:51AM (#25454112)
Discerning
Re:What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Wrong [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:50AM (#24670375)
It's not like traditional newspapers/outlets are good for people. Not necessarily the algorithms fault.
Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:22AM (#21788943)
So we should take advice to get a lawyer from a forum, but not take advice not to get a lawyer from a forum?
Re:The £7,500 dress that does not exist on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:01PM (#21560308)
This is literally the plot to the Emperors New Clothes
That’s the kind of pain you’re in for when you’re overly reliant on a single channel.
Re:New bill ensures Jailtime for CEOs that lie on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:33PM (#21283739)
How would anyone become President?! /joke
Re:Serverless: slower and more expensive on Monday September 23, 2019 @09:48AM (#21048892)
Not all projects are concerned with speed and cost. Our in-house CRM has a total of 4 users and is probably used for about a total of 2 hours per working day. Server less is a pretty good fit.
Don't the Tesla have forward facing radar?
Re:Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:41PM (#19879511)
Touché. Or should I say toupee?
Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:53PM (#18125122)
Maybe we both have loose morals but I don't see it as cheating the employer anymore than one "cheats" an employer by driving to work instead of walking.

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